Data Science Actuary | Counterpart | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">DATA SCIENCE ACTUARY</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Counterpart believes in small businesses and is dedicated to helping them do more with less risk. By pairing leading insurance experts with cutting-edge technology, Counterpart empowers small business owners to grow with confidence. Exceptional underwriters, trusted insurance brokers, and prominent insurance carriers come together on the Counterpart platform to support small businesses by providing AI-driven management and professional liability underwriting and claims services. That’s where you come in.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Data Science Actuary, you will balance being a prolific individual contributor to initiatives at the intersection of data science and traditional actuarial work. You will help bridge the gap between the Data & Insurance teams by leveraging actuarial techniques such as pricing and risk modeling as well as new techniques such as machine learning and programming. In addition, you will contribute to the culture, rituals, and processes that underpin a high functioning team and the organization more broadly.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">AS A DATA SCIENCE ACTUARY, YOU WILL:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build and maintain new efficient/expansive rating systems and related models in Excel and in Python</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build and maintain risk/simulation models to help analyze and steer the business</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Research ways to leverage industry data to enhance current rating, new/current admitted filings, and provide guidance to underwriting</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develop complex analyses to our underwriting, operations, business development, product performance, and user experience.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Assist the data science, operations, and insurance teams with ad hoc analysis, data normalization, data cleansing and process improvement.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Support the integration and production of new data sources in a manner that minimizes development cycles while maximizing potential business applications.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Continuously challenge how we can improve our underwriting and operations.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Maintain a clean production environment such that the data models can be easily interpreted and built upon by other data science and engineering team members.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Present your work, findings, and opinions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">WE LOOK FOR TEAMMATES WHO HAVE:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Minimum of 3 years of total work experience</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bachelor/Master in quantitative discipline (computer science, actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, physics, engineering or related field).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Preferred but not required: ACAS, FCAS (this a hybrid actuarial and analytics role)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience and interest with data scientist techniques (e.g. Machine Learning)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">An entrepreneurial mindset, interested in building the future</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Preferred: domain knowledge in management/professional liability</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to balance competing priorities and focus on key initiatives, by estimating timelines and keeping team/documentation updated with status of projects</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience and excitement using modern cloud computing and cloud databases (i.e. AWS, Snowflake etc.)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A passion for solving challenging mathematical problems and an interest in exploring new machine learning tools and technologies.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">2+ years experience with Python.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Communications skills for translating technical or statistical analysis results into business recommendations.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bias to practical action and creativity using data (we value past or present projects that support this).</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Tanner Hackett, CEO & Founder:</strong> Having founded two other major startups, including Button and Lazada, Tanner now spends his time focused on mental health through his philanthropy,<a href="http://openminded.org" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Openminded.org</a>, in addition to reading, surfing, yoga, and enjoying the outdoors.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Tobias Schuler, Head of Data & Analytics Advisor:</strong> Tobias was previously the Head of Data and Analytics at Digital Partners, a Munich Re company. Tobias led a team that built out data integrations, business intelligence and advanced analytics across all insurtech partners spanning various P&C lines of businesses. Tobias is also a FCAS and has built systems to enable leading class insights for underwriting, actuarial, claims and finance experts while focusing on democratizing data. He enjoys traveling internationally and spending time with his 2 young daughters.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Stanley Wang, Director, Pricing Analytics:</strong> Before joining Counterpart, Stanley worked as an actuary within the pricing solutions and methods team at USAA to combine actuarial pricing with data science models. Before that, he was a leading data scientist for Digital Partners, a Munich Re Company where he specialized in building data science models and insights for leading insurtech companies. He has had many other relevant roles such as capital modeling, risk management etc. He lives in New York with his growing family.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Elizabeth Barsalou, Data Scientist:</strong> Before joining Counterpart, Elizabeth worked as a full stack data scientist in small business lending for Kabbage and BHG. She specialized in building data science models, infrastructure and strategies to extend credit to small businesses. She lives in San Francisco and spends her free time singing opera and playing with her dogs.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Chris Shafer, Special Projects</strong>: Chris is a published scientific author, having studied the neural correlates of gratitude at the lauded Brain and Creativity Institute. He has since helped to launch numerous businesses in which he held a variety of critical roles from product management to business operations to strategic partnerships. Chris received his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Counterpart believes in small businesses and is dedicated to helping them do more with less risk. By pairing leading insurance experts with cutting-edge technology, Counterpart empowers small business owners to grow with confidence. Exceptional underwriters, trusted insurance brokers, and prominent insurance carriers come together on the Counterpart platform to support small businesses by providing AI-driven management and professional liability underwriting and claims services. That’s where you come in.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Data Science Actuary, you will balance being a prolific individual contributor to initiatives at the intersection of data science and traditional actuarial work. You will help bridge the gap between the Data & Insurance teams by leveraging actuarial techniques such as pricing and risk modeling as well as new techniques such as machine learning and programming. In addition, you will contribute to the culture, rituals, and processes that underpin a high functioning team and the organization more broadly.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">AS A DATA SCIENCE ACTUARY, YOU WILL:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build and maintain new efficient/expansive rating systems and related models in Excel and in Python</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build and maintain risk/simulation models to help analyze and steer the business</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Research ways to leverage industry data to enhance current rating, new/current admitted filings, and provide guidance to underwriting</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develop complex analyses to our underwriting, operations, business development, product performance, and user experience.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Assist the data science, operations, and insurance teams with ad hoc analysis, data normalization, data cleansing and process improvement.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Support the integration and production of new data sources in a manner that minimizes development cycles while maximizing potential business applications.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Continuously challenge how we can improve our underwriting and operations.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Maintain a clean production environment such that the data models can be easily interpreted and built upon by other data science and engineering team members.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Present your work, findings, and opinions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">WE LOOK FOR TEAMMATES WHO HAVE:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Minimum of 3 years of total work experience</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bachelor/Master in quantitative discipline (computer science, actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, physics, engineering or related field).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Preferred but not required: ACAS, FCAS (this a hybrid actuarial and analytics role)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience and interest with data scientist techniques (e.g. Machine Learning)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">An entrepreneurial mindset, interested in building the future</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Preferred: domain knowledge in management/professional liability</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to balance competing priorities and focus on key initiatives, by estimating timelines and keeping team/documentation updated with status of projects</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience and excitement using modern cloud computing and cloud databases (i.e. AWS, Snowflake etc.)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A passion for solving challenging mathematical problems and an interest in exploring new machine learning tools and technologies.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">2+ years experience with Python.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Communications skills for translating technical or statistical analysis results into business recommendations.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bias to practical action and creativity using data (we value past or present projects that support this).</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Tanner Hackett, CEO & Founder:</strong> Having founded two other major startups, including Button and Lazada, Tanner now spends his time focused on mental health through his philanthropy,<a href="http://openminded.org" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Openminded.org</a>, in addition to reading, surfing, yoga, and enjoying the outdoors.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Tobias Schuler, Head of Data & Analytics Advisor:</strong> Tobias was previously the Head of Data and Analytics at Digital Partners, a Munich Re company. Tobias led a team that built out data integrations, business intelligence and advanced analytics across all insurtech partners spanning various P&C lines of businesses. Tobias is also a FCAS and has built systems to enable leading class insights for underwriting, actuarial, claims and finance experts while focusing on democratizing data. He enjoys traveling internationally and spending time with his 2 young daughters.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Stanley Wang, Director, Pricing Analytics:</strong> Before joining Counterpart, Stanley worked as an actuary within the pricing solutions and methods team at USAA to combine actuarial pricing with data science models. Before that, he was a leading data scientist for Digital Partners, a Munich Re Company where he specialized in building data science models and insights for leading insurtech companies. He has had many other relevant roles such as capital modeling, risk management etc. He lives in New York with his growing family.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Elizabeth Barsalou, Data Scientist:</strong> Before joining Counterpart, Elizabeth worked as a full stack data scientist in small business lending for Kabbage and BHG. She specialized in building data science models, infrastructure and strategies to extend credit to small businesses. She lives in San Francisco and spends her free time singing opera and playing with her dogs.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><strong class=" font-semibold">Chris Shafer, Special Projects</strong>: Chris is a published scientific author, having studied the neural correlates of gratitude at the lauded Brain and Creativity Institute. He has since helped to launch numerous businesses in which he held a variety of critical roles from product management to business operations to strategic partnerships. Chris received his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.</p>